Can a straight man and woman just be friends? What's the

Not if both are single and attractive. Only if one of them is repulsive it'd happen.

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Yes. Being attracted to the same gender as your friend doesn't mean you're going to fuck them. There are a lot of reasons people won't date their friend's, including not being physically attracted to them (standards are subjective as fuck), not liking how the other person handles themselves in certain situations, not liking their family, or just about any reason any normal person wouldn't date any other normal person.

When you're friends with someone, their flaws become more acceptable because you don't have to deal with them in a relationship. One of my best friends is of the opposite gender and I would never date them because I fucking hate how much of an arrogant shit they can be, but that part of their personality is excusable in our friendship because I don't have to personally deal with it.

I'm friends with a lot of people of the opposite gender and I would never date any of them. Even though I love them as friends, I couldn't tolerate living or being with any of them.

Also, having casual sex with a friend can make things awkward if you learn that they're shitty in bed and never want to fuck them again. Learned that one the hard way.

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its possible, but pretty uncommon

>>18613676
No, no, no, and NO. People always say it can happen but I have -never- seen this work. One of them always develops or is hiding their feelings. It could take time to surface and no combination of single/taken/married makes a difference. Seen it unfold countless times for myself and others.

Man, people are are really sad. If you honestly don't think you could be just friends with a woman (or a man) that says a lot about you view people in general.


My friends are pretty split down the middle gender-wise and some of my closest friends are women. Some of my SO's closest friends are male. Hell, I've given relationship advice to a lot of female friends.

This is a normal, healthy thing. If you're having trouble doing it, that's really something to work on

>>18613676
Yep. Sexual attraction, if it comes up at all, is an animal urge, you can have friendship with or without it.
>b-but if you wanna bang her it's not really a friendship
Nigga sex isn't fucking important. The only reason this fucks up so much is a lot of people (not just guys, but mostly guys) basically friendzone themselves when their interaction with the girl started as a doomed attraction. They "settle" for friendship (sometimes under the delusion of "it doesn't matter what kind of relationship we have, I just wanna be close to her") and that creates resentment. Approach a woman as a person without factoring whether or not she's cute, with a hobby or interest or circumstance being your point of connection and not her having a desirable set of genitals.

Some friends even fuck from time to time, but I don't recommend getting your hopes up. For every one successful FWB pairing, there's a thousand broken friendships and one thousandth of one relationship born from such an arrangement. You are not special, and do not gain anything by thinking you are.

It's possible. I've got a few attractive female friends that I wouldn't fuck.

Even still though my relationships with them tend to stray into mild flirting at every opportunity.

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That's because flirting is fun, brah. It's like the nice, fluffy version of banter.

Yep. I have some friends who are a guy and a girl and there isn't an ounce of romance between the two. They're like an old married couple at times in the sense that they bicker, but their friendship is 100% platonic.

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This desu